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It’s been 50 years since the original band members of The Grateful Dead began playing together in clubs around Palo Alto and San Francisco. In that time they’ve sold 35 million records. But more importantly, they inspired an unprecedented culture of fandom –

99% Invisible: “Structural Integrity” When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center was the seventh-tallest building in the world. But it’s the base of the building that really makes the tower so unique. The bottom nine of its 59 stories are stilts.

Blank on Blank: "Johnny Cash on the Gospel" "I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on." A previously unheard interview recorded in 1996.

Youth Radio podcast: "An on-line challenge turns deadly" An online drinking challenge made popular in the UK and Australia has already been responsible for five deaths of men under 30 years old. Youth Radio’s Rafael Johns and his friends have been monitoring this trend on YouTube wondering if it will hit in the US.

Fugitive Waves:"Edison"The Kitchen Sisters explore the ups and downs (and ups and downs and ups) in the life of the great American inventor. Fugitive Waves is one of the shows featured in Radiotopia, the new podcast network from PRX.

Life of the Law: "School Discipline" As the number of law enforcement officers on school campuses has gone up, so have the number of arrests. This month the Obama Administration issued recommendations for alternative forms of discipline -- but as the story of Kyle Thompson demonstrates, in the real world of schools, the issues are tricky.